and the Tract de Praescriptione Haereticorum.
The Tract de Testimonio Animae.
The Tracts de Patientia, de Oratione, de Baptismo, de
Poenitentia.
The two books ad Uxorem.

Works written after he espoused Montanism:--

The Tracts de Spectaculis and de Idololatria, though others say
these should be ranked among the first class.
The Tracts de Corona, and de Fuga in persecutione, Scorpiace,
and ad Scapulam.
The Tracts de Exhortatione Castitatis, de Monogamia, de
Pudicitia, de Jejuniis, de Virginibus Velandis, de Pallio, the
five books against Marcion, the Tracts adversus Valentinianos,
de Carne Christi, de Resurrectione Carnis, adversus Hermogenem,
de Anima, adversus Praxeam, de Cultu Foeminarum.]

I will detain you only by a very few quotations from this father.

In his Apology, sect. 30, we read this very remarkable passage, "We
invoke the eternal God, the true God, the living God, for the safety of
the emperor.... {130} Thither (heavenward) looking up, with hands
extended, because they are innocent; with our head bare, because we are
not ashamed; in fine, without a prompter, because it is from the heart;
we Christians pray for all rulers a long life, a secure government, a
safe home, brave armies, a faithful senate, a good people, a quiet
world.... For these things I cannot ask in prayer from any other except
Him from whom I know that I shall obtain; because both He is the one who
alone grants, and I am the one whom it behoveth to obtain by
prayer;--his servant, who looks to him alone, who for the sake of his
religion am put to death, who offer to him a rich and a greater victim,
which He has commanded; prayer from a chaste frame, from a harmless
soul, from a holy spirit.... So, let hoofs dig into us, thus stretched
forward to God, let crosses suspend us, let fires embrace us, let swords
sever our necks from the body, let beasts rush upon us,--the very frame
of mind of a praying Christian is prepared for every torment. This do,
ye good presidents; tear ye away the soul that is praying for the
emperor." [Page 27.]

In the opening of his reflections on the Lord's Prayer, he says,--

"Let us consider therefore, beloved, in the first place, the heavenly
wisdom in the precept of praying in secret, by which he required, in a
man, faith to believe that both the sight and the hearing of the
Omnipotent God is present under our roofs and in our secret places; and
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